TOURISM AND MEDIA

Australia-based online retailer SurfStitch Group Ltd. said a wave of recent losses have prompted it to delay a global rebranding effort that would have consolidated its online operations into a single website—Swell.com—named after its e-commerce subsidiary in Irvine.

Emmis Communications Corp. in Indianapolis plans to sell Newport Beach-based Orange Coast magazine, Los Angeles magazine and three other regional monthly print publications as part of an effort to go private, according to Orange County Business Journal sister publication Los Angeles Business Journal.

Speedo USA in Cypress will end its sponsorship of Ryan Lochte after a story he and three other U.S. swimmers told of being robbed at gunpoint on Aug 14 in Rio de Janeiro during the Olympic Games was proven false by authorities.

Hyundai Motor America in Fountain Valley will let prospective buyers in the Los Angeles and Orange County areas book test drives for the 2017 Elantra through Amazon’s Prime Now service, and check out the sedan at local dealers.

The former interim chief executive of Irvine-based Ubiquity Inc., which is transitioning away from media and into augmented and virtual reality, has been slapped with civil fraud charges by the Securities and Exchange Commission and criminal fraud charges by the Department of Justice.

The parent organization of the Orange County Register has named Carlos Aviles editor of its three Spanish-language weekly newspapers and associated digital media—Excélsior in Santa Ana, La Prensa in Riverside, and ImpactoUSA in Torrance.